Welcome todays counsel on international economics. Im neil irwin at the New York Times and author of a new book called health when in a winner take world and i preside over todays discussion. Great honor to have Jerome H Powell with us today and the 16th person to chair the board of governors at the Federal Reserve system and joins us today for the World Economy and previously he was a fed governor that he worked in Bipartisan Policy Center and u. S. Treasury department and we begin with a few remarks by german powell. [applause] thank you, neil. Good afternoon. Its a pleasure to be here today so i will begin with a Progress Report on broad public review by the Federal Reserve colleagues and i are conducting of the strategy, tools and mediation practices we use to achieve the objectives congress has assigned to us by law i will discuss the outlook for the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy and i look forward to our discussion that will follow. During our public review we are seeking per
Policies. He spoke at an event hosted by the council on Foreign Relations in new york city. This is one hour. Good afternoon. Welcome todays counsel on international economics. Im neil irwin at the New York Times and author of a new book called health when in a winner take world and i preside over todays discussion. Great honor to have Jerome H Powell with us today and the 16th person to chair the board of governors at the Federal Reserve system and joins us today for the World Economy and previously he was a fed governor that he worked in Bipartisan Policy Center and u. S. Treasury department and we begin with a few remarks by german powell. [applause] thank you, neil. Good afternoon. Its a pleasure to be here today so i will begin with a Progress Report on broad public review by the Federal Reserve colleagues and i are conducting of the strategy, tools and mediation practices we use to achieve the objectives congress has assigned to us by law i will discuss the outlook for the u. S.
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to our discussion of health scotts new book, connectedness and contagion. Here it is. If you didnt notice, we have copies for sale. Its my pleasure to remind that youre welcome to buy a copy and how will be available to autograph them. Here we are in aei stylish new Conference Center to discuss a very old problem, namely how best to survive panics of which there have been many across the centuries and survive fear and distrust when financial actors try to withdraw to protect themselves, a rational strategy for each but as we all know not when they all do it at the same time. Highly interested historically but much more pressing when we consider as his book does in detail and what should we do in the next panic which would surely arrive sooner or later. Two centuries ago David Ricardo observed a general panic may seize the country when everyone becomes desirous of treasury metals, banks have no security on any system, that is to say the private banks on th
1. And i ask for five more minutes. The presiding officer is there objection . Hearing none. Ms. Landrieu so this is the record. When people say democrats havent been willing to negotiate, that is false, false, false. We have been trying to negotiate for six months, and the way you negotiate is going to a budget committee. Now we are in control of the senate. The people elected us. No one appointed me here. The people of the United States elected us in a fair and square election. Some of us won by a lot. Some of us won by small amounts. But this was an election by the people of the United States. The people elected the Republican Leadership in the house. They passed a budget. We passed a budget. All we have to do is go to conference. But not everyone in washington is reckless. Not everyone loves to fight over our constituents misfortune of unemployment and lack of business. Theres a small group that put them on the chopping block, and they need to take them off. They should not be used